Next, I come to amendment 3. I might however take amendments 3 and 4 together. Clause (5) provides that the nominees of the Governor in the Upper Chamber shall be persons having special knowledge or practical experience in respect of literature, science, art, co-operative movement and social services. Through my amendment, I seek a change in these various categories. I wish to provide that the nominees of the Governor shall be persons who will have special knowledge in the fields of religion, philosophy, literature, science, art and social services. It passes my comprehension why the category of “co-operative movement” has been included specifically in this clause and why so much importance has been attached thereto. I am all for co-operation everywhere, in the House and outside the House. Without co-operation we will get nowhere. No nation can get anywhere without co-operation. But to specify the co-operative movement in this clause seems to me to be wholly unnecessary, and if at all it is necessary–and if the wise men of the Drafting Committee feel that they must find a place for men and women eminent in the cooperative movement in the Upper Chambers there is the category of social services. I suppose the term ‘social service’ if understood in a wider sense does include the co-operative movement. It is not a political service or educational service : the co-operative movement is a social service. And when social service is provided for, I do not see why we should specifically provide for the cooperative movement. I do not know who has suggested this particular category to be included. It is, if at all, a sub-category and it should find no place as such in this clause.
